Auto GK *how good is it ?*

[hhhhbk]

i used AutoGK to rip a series last night [DVD to AVI] and was very impressed by it
i checked the statslog and it took under 1 hour per episode which is phenomenally fast

usually when turnig 22 minute long episodes into 175 minute avis it takes about 2 and a half hours and you have to sit there for about 40 minutes encoding the audio then fiddling with avisynth scripts and the aspect ratio

autoGK on the other hand took under 1 minute to set up and yielded results which i couldnt distinguish from ones that i had done using
dvd2avi to rip audio and create d2v project file
besweet or cdex to encode the audio
flaskmpeg to determine aspect ratio and cropping
avisynth to be able to put video into virtualdub
virtualdub to encode the video
nandub to join the video and audio

AutoGK actually uses dvd2avi, besweet, avisynth and virtual dub to do its workthe difference being that it does it automatically for you rather than having to sit there like a lemon clicking next

does anyone have any views on autoGK comparing it to the manual route or other dvd to avi conversion techniques

comments on
time that the other technique reuires(both setting up and to actually do the encoding)
and quality of the finished rips would be appreciated

theres a great guide by doom 9 https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?link=469
or http://www.doom9.org/autogk.htm

[jntaylor63]

Think DVD SHrink for Divx / Xvid !

It couldn't be more simple. It does all the set-up and can pick the best resize for your given Quality or File Size.

I use Xvid over Divx. Most of my test runs show that AGK will get a better quality % with Xvid. The best that I have seen is a back-up with Pulp Fiction. Its 155 mins and used 5.1 AC3. Set it for 2 gig file and the play back on my PC is equal to the orginal. AGK said the quality % was at 94.5 and I beleive it!

I'm waiting for more Divx / Xvid player to come out this Fall in the US. I can then back-up 2 to 3 movies on a DVD-R and play them. (And leave the orginal in its case)

[RabidDog]

Its a V good product that is nice and simple to use. It does what it says on the tin. The manual intervention way *might* possibly yield slightly better results but more likely will to lead to frustration, errors and mistakes. AGK automates so many of the previous manual "judgements".. set it to do one pass quality based and its superfast too.. I use divx over xvid as it works better on my player. Just gets better and better. value for money too.

[winifreid]

I thought AGK was only for ripped DVDs. How do you get it to work with standalone video files?
I have used Fairuse and found it a little easier to use for DVDs (it is truly one click for a DVD), but it isn't really free anymore.

[Thomas Davie]

I use Auto Gk. Although last night, for the heck of it, I downloaded and earlier version of Fairuse (one that was free), and did a side byu side comparison when backing up a movie; Fairuse took longer and didnb't produce better results (my opinion only), and it produced undersized movies).

I like Auto Gk very much. So much so, that if I had to pay for it, I would.

Tom

[saamoa]

I'm a lazy sod so i'm very pleased with autoGK, ive done a few movies so far and the quality looks excelent, well as good as you can expect from an avi/divx file.

and the whole doing this doing that program is just to much work for me

[winifreid]

I thought AGK was only for ripped DVDs. How do you get it to work with standalone video files?

Fairuse is really designed to fit a DVD9 on a single CD.

[Suntan]

My sound noobish, but from my searching it doesn't look like AGK supports .OGM/Vorbis. Is this true?

-Suntan

[Thomas Davie]

I thought AGK was only for ripped DVDs. How do you get it to work with standalone video files?

As long as the mpeg 2's you have are DVD compatible, you can select file input for the selection method. For example, I record 1/2 hour TV shows in HQ mode on my DVD recorder, rip it to the hard drive, edit out the commercials in mpeg-vcr, losslessly save and then encode to avi.

hope this helps

Tom

[hhhhbk]

I thought AGK was only for ripped DVDs. How do you get it to work with standalone video files?

As long as the mpeg 2's you have are DVD compatible, you can select file input for the selection method. For example, I record 1/2 hour TV shows in HQ mode on my DVD recorder, rip it to the hard drive, edit out the commercials in mpeg-vcr, losslessly save and then encode to avi.

hope this helps

Tom

doesnt the dvd that you record from a tv signal have the same structure as a retail dvd
so can still be ripped to hard drive with dvd decrypter and then fed into auto gk

does anyone know how to feed a normal mpeg2 from pc's tv card into auto gk ?

[hhhhbk]

with autogk 1.6 you can put in mpeg2 files so update your software